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For most of his time with Radiohead, Jonny has kept Radiohead

Thom Yorke
his pedals on two side-by-side flightcase boards. While
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one might expect the pedals to be connected from right Greenwood

to left, since pedals have inputs on the right side and Colin
Greenwood
outputs on the left, Jonny generally connects his pedals Ed O'Brien
from left to right. But there are some exceptions to that Phil Selway

as well. If Jonny chose this arrangement in part to Friends and Collaborators

confuse fans, it was often successful, as some early Atoms for Peace, Ultraísta, etc.

Nigel Godrich
diagrams listed his pedals in reverse. But overall, the
Clive Deamer
physical layout of Jonny’s pedals has a lot more to do
Flea
with convenience of use than the order in which they’re Joey Waranker
connected. The reason that many diagrams of Jonny Mauro Refosco
setup have errors is that they assume Jonny arranges Laura Bettinson

his pedals in a traditional or standard way, which simply OTHER PAGES

isn’t the case. Articles

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Jonny originally only had one pedalboard, upon which
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he set up his Electro-Harmonix Small Stone V2, Marshall
Tunings
Shredmaster, BOSS FV100 volume pedal, and BOSS
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LS2 Line Selector. But by late-1993, this board was
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supplemented with a Demeter The Tremulator and a Submit
Digitech Whammy WH1, both kept on the floor beside Blog Archive
the pedalboard. Jonny starting using a DOD 440 and a Contact

BOSS SD-1 in mid-1995, leading to the two-pedalboard About

arrangement which he’s used consistently with

Radiohead ever since.
One could roughly describe the setup as having
modulation and pitch pedals on the left board, and
overdrive and time-based effects on right board. With
Jonny’s left-to-right wiring, all of the modulation effects
are connected from left to right, and all of the
modulation effects come before all of the distortions and
delays. But things are a little more complicated on the
distortion/delay board. The output from modulation/pitch
board is connected to input of the BOSS LS2. From
there, the signal splits into two paths, which Jonny uses
the LS2 to choose between. One is his original “heavy
distortion” setup, with a Marshall Shredmaster
distortion, a volume pedal, and Fender Eighty-Five amp.
That’s the setup used for most of the Radiohead’s first
two albums. The other signal chain is a more versatile
setup, with a mid-gain overdrive, a delay, a reverb, and a
looper running into a Vox AC30 amp. In this
arrangement, the LS2 lets Jonny switch from blistering
high-gain solos to ambient mid-gain echos with the
press of a single switch. As one might expect, since Kid
A Jonny has relied almost exclusively on the path
connected to his AC30, and mainly uses the path
connected to the Eighty-Five for performing older songs.
Contents
1992 Drill EP, Pablo Honey
1993 Pablo Honey tour
September 1993 Conan O'Brien
1994
May 27, 1994 the Astoria
October 5, 1994 MTV’s Most Wanted
“Acoustic”
April 1995 USTV
August 1995 MTV’s Most Wanted
March 15, 1996 Jay Leno
May 1996 Pinkpop, Saturday Night Special
1997-1998 OK Computer tour
Oct 14, 2000 Saturday Night Live
2001 Amnesiac tour
May 17, 2001 Top of the Pops
May 30, 2003 Jonathan Ross
2003 Hail To The Thief tour
2003 Acoustic tour
Oct 17, 2003 Letterman
Nov 7, 2003 Jonathan Ross
April 2006
June 10, 2006
2006-2007
2008-2009 In Rainbows Tour
Feb 8, 2009 51st Grammy Awards
Jan 24, 2010 Haiti Benefit show
Summer/Fall 2011
May 17, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 with the LCO in Manchester
2016-2018 A Moon Shaped Pool tour
Jun 18, 2017 JUNUN at the Best Kept Secret
festival
July 9, 2018 JUNUN at the Alamo Drafthouse
May 22, 2021 The Smile Glastonbury Live
Stream
Dec 2, 2021 The Smile Instagram Live Stream

Signal Chains
1992 Drill EP and Pablo Honey studio signal order
Guitar -> Marshall Shredmaster -> Fender Eighty-Five

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A rare photo from the recording of Radiohead’s Drill EP

in February 1992. In the upper right, one can see the
headstock of Jonny’s Telecaster Plus.

1993 Pablo Honey tour signal order

Guitar ->
EHX Small Stone V2 - Boss LS2 (A-Bypass) <
(Boss LS2 Output) -> White Shredmaster clone - Boss
FV100 -> Fender Eight-Five
(Boss LS2 A-Send) -> ‘65 Reissue Fender Twin Reverb
or Mesa Boogie combo*
-The Boss TU12 is connected to the “Tuner Out” of the
Boss FV100.
-Jonny used a reissue Fender Twin Reverb as his clean
amp at most gigs during this era, but used a few
different Mesa Boogie combos at various shows in
America. See Jonny’s amplifiers page for more details.

An image of Jonny’s pedalboard from Radiohead’s

performance of Anyone Can Play Guitar at the MTV
Beach House on July 4, 1993.

September 1993 Conan O'Brien signal order

Guitar ->
Digitech Whammy - EHX Small Stone V2 - Boss LS2 (A-
Bypass) <
(Boss LS2 Output) -> White Shredmaster clone - Boss
FV100* -> Fender Eight-Five
(Boss LS2 A-Send) -> Mesa Boogie combo
*A Boss TU12 is connected to the “Tuner Out” of the
Boss FV100.

A screenshot of Jonny adjusting his volume pedal during

Creep on the Conan O'Brien show on September 14,
1993.

1994 signal order

Guitar ->
Demeter The Tremulator - Digitech Whammy - EHX
Small Stone V2 - Boss LS2 (A-Bypass) <
(Boss LS2 Output) -> White Shredmaster clone - Boss
FV100* -> Fender Eight-Five
(Boss LS2 A-Send) -> Fender Twin Reverb
*A Boss TU12 is connected to the “Tuner Out” of the
Boss FV100.

May 27, 1994 the Astoria signal order

This was Jonny’s main setup during the recording of The
Bends.
Guitar ->
Demeter The Tremulator - Digitech Whammy WH1 - EHX
Small Stone V2 - Boss LS2 (A-Bypass) <
(Boss LS2 Output) -> Plank’s Shredmaster clone - Boss
FV100* -> Fender Eight-Five
(Boss LS2 A-Send) -> 1970s Orange OR-80
*A Boss TU12 is connected to the “Tuner Out” of the
Boss FV100.

October 5, 1994 MTV’s Most Wanted “Acoustic”

Guitar -> Boss LS-2* - Demeter The Tremulator -
Digitech Whammy WH1 -> Amplifier
*A Boss TU12 is connected to one of the sends.

A screenshot from during the “acoustic” version of My

Iron Lung on MTV’s Most Wanted (radiohead.com).

Mid-1995 signal order

This was Jonny’s main setup for touring in support of
The Bends.
Guitar ->
Demeter The Tremulator - Digitech Whammy - EHX
Small Stone V2 - Boss LS2 (A-Bypass) <
(Boss LS2 Output) -> Marshall Shredmaster - Boss
FV100* -> Fender Eight-Five
(Boss LS2 A-Send) -> Fender Twin Reverb
*A Boss TU12 is connected to the “Tuner Out” of the
Boss FV100.

An image of Jonny’s pedalboard from Radiohead’s

performance of Fake Plastic Trees on USTV on April 16,
1995.

An image of Jonny’s setup from Radiohead’s

performance on Jools Holland on May 27, 1995.

August 1995 MTV’s Most Wanted signal order

Guitar ->
EHX Small Stone V2 - Demeter The Tremulator - DOD
440 - Digitech Whammy - Boss LS2 (A-Bypass) <
(Boss LS2 Output) -> Marshall Shredmaster - Boss
FV100 -> Fender Eight-Five
(Boss LS2 A-Send) -> BOSS SD1 -> Fender Twin Reverb
-The Boss TU12 is connected to the “Tuner Out” of the
Boss FV100.

Two images of Jonny’s pedalboard from Radiohead’s

performance of Just on MTV’s Most Wanted on August
18, 1995.

Mar 15, 1996 Jay Leno signal order

This was a down-sized setup used to perform High and
Dry on the Jay Leno show.
Guitar ->
Boss LS2 (A-Bypass) <
(BOSS LS2 Output) -> Marshall Shredmaster - Boss
FV100 -> Fender Eight-Five
(BOSS LS2 A-Send) -> Boss SD1 - Fender Twin Reverb

An image of Jonny’s pedalboard from Radiohead’s

performance of High and Dry on the Jay Leno show on
March 15, 1996.

May 1996 signal order

This pedalboard was used for Radiohead performances
in May, 1996, including the Pinkpop festival and a
televised performance of Bones. This tour occured
during a break in the recording of OK Computer, so it is
most likely the same setup used on that album.
Guitar ->
EHX Small Stone V2 - Demeter The Tremulator - DOD
440 - Digitech Whammy - Boss LS2 (A-Bypass) <
(Boss LS2 Output) -> Marshall Shredmaster - Boss
FV300H -> Fender Eight-Five
(Boss LS2 A-Send) -> Boss SD1 - Roland Space Echo -
> Fender Twin Reverb
-The Boss TU12H is connected to the “Tuner Out” of
the Boss FV300H.

Jonny reaching for the pitch knob on his Whammy

during Anyone Can Play Guitar at the May 1996 Pinkpop
festival (radiohead.com).

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